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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2014
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
Shane G. Nowell, Boise, ID (US);
Wayne H. Vinson, Longmont, CO (US);
Travis D. Fox, Edmond, OK (US);
Danny J. Kastler, Longmont, CO (US);
Edwin Scott Olds, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0625 (2013.01); G06F 3/0656 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 12/0866 (2013.01); G06F 2003/0691 (2013.01); G06F 2003/0692 (2013.01); G06F 2212/281 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for decreasing power consumption of a storage device. More specifically, embodiments disclosed herein are directed to reducing power consumption of a data storage device by enabling a command buffer associated with the data storage device to store received commands without executing the commands until a predetermined number of commands have been stored in the buffer.